Gottlob Frege

Gottlob Frege (8 November 1848-26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician, best known as the founder of analytic philosophy.

Biography
Gottlob Frege was born in Wismar, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany in 1848. He was educated at Gottingen and Jena, and he became a logician. He developed modern logic in the Begriffsshrift and worked in the foundations of mathematics. His philosophy on language and mathematics became known as "analytic philosophy". He was largely ignored during his lifetime, but Giuseppe Peano and Bertrand Russell introduced his work to later generations of logicians and philosophers. Frege died in Bad Kleinen, Germany in 1925.